Fence



J. WINTRODE & H. G. SOLOMON. Fnce.

. No. 224,501. Q Patented Feb. 10-, I880.

a Witnesses:

UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

. JACOB 'WINTRODE, on HUNTI GTON, AND HORACE G. SOLOMON, on HOPE,

' INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming of Letters Patent No. 224,501, dated February 10, 1880. I I I Application filed September 12, 1879.

To all whomlit may concern: I I Be it known that we, J AOOB WINTRODE, o

' Huntington, in the county of Huntington and State of Indiana, and HORACE G. SOLO- MON, of Hope, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and

. scribe its construction and operation, referring the other end two or more of the'rails project to the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective View, showing the construction of our fence. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

Each panel of our fence is composed of a series of horizontal rails, A A, connected at or near their ends by upright cleats or boards B B. At one end of each panel the upright B is at the ends of the horizontal rails, While at beyond the upright, as shown in the drawings, so that when two adjacent panels overlap each other there will be "an upright on one side only at the joint. The thus overlapping ends of the two panels rest on a block or base, 0,

and a stake, D, is. driven down on each side into the ground, so as to hold the base in position. The relative dimensions of the base with the overlaping'panels are such that the stakes D will have their upper ends bearing 7 against the upright B on one side and the bottom rail on the other side, and thus prevent any lateral movement of the panels at their lower ends at the same time, as said stakes hold the base in place.

A wire, a, is passed and tied in any suitable manner around'the stakes F, immediately under the upper rails of the panels, so as to still further bind the. parts together. This wire also acts in such a manner that if the lower end of either stakeshould rot the fence would yet be held firmly in place.

Thisfence is cheap, easilybuilt, and at the same time inn and durable.

We are aware that fences have been made with. two long stakes crossing each other and supporting a top rail, and connected near their lower ends by a brace, upon which brace the panels are supported, and we do not claim such as our invention. Neither do we claim, broadly, to support the panels on a' base-block.

Having thus fully described our invention, whatwe claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p I Ina fence,the panels AB A B, constructed as described, and overlapping each other, resting upon a base, 0, and held in position by the short stakes D D, in combination with the long crossed stakes F F, binding and supporting wire a, and the top rail I, all substantially as and forthe purposes herein set forth.

JACOB WINTRODE. H. G. SOLOMON.

Witnesses: 7 i I AUGUST HEILMAN, A. H. WINTRODE. 

